Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series: Emily Wilson
MacArthur Fellow and Award-Winning Poet and Translator
In partnership with Butler’s Classics Program
Emily Wilson is a classicist, translator, professor, and author of the bestselling translations of Homer’s The Odyssey and The Iliad (winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Literary Fiction and Classics). She has also published several other translated works, including translations of four tragedies of Euripides published in The Greek Plays: Bacchae, Helen, Electra, and Trojan Women, and translations of Six Tragedies by Seneca. Her other books include The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca, The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint, and Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton.
Wilson was named a fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. She is a Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Wilson lives in Philadelphia with her family and pets.